John Ross

Glasgow, Inverness, London, Sydney

Asia Pacific Editor at Times Higher Education (THE)

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Research institutes ‘should use data to solve gender pay gap’

1 week ago | timeshighereducation.com | John Ross

Rather than moaning about pay inequity, research organisations should use their data skills to solve the gender salary gap, according to two New Zealand scientists who have created a statistical model to do just that.
Australian student visa regime change ‘encourages poaching’

1 week ago | timeshighereducation.com | John Ross

Changes to Australia’s student visa processing regime have sparked a new wave of onshore poaching, with international students jumping ship after completing just months of their degrees. Western Sydney University (WSU) vice-chancellor George Williams said government measures to restrict student arrivals in Australia had produced an “emerging market” of institutions pilfering their competitors’ foreign enrolments.
Longer post-study work rights ‘good for universities but not students’

1 week ago | timeshighereducation.com | John Ross

Generous post-study work rights help attract international students but can undermine their work and migration prospects by intensifying competition for limited jobs and residency visas, Australian research suggests. An analysis of the impacts of a 2013 boost to international graduates’ work rights discerned no immediate effect on their income, the types of jobs they secured or the characteristics of the firms that employed them. But their chances of remaining in the country long term declined.
Impact Rankings 2025: Australia claims top billing

1 week ago | timeshighereducation.com | John Ross

Australian institutions have dominated Times Higher Education’s Impact Rankings for the fourth time in five years, claiming three of the top five places in the global assessment of universities’ efforts to meet the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Western Sydney University was named the world’s most impactful higher education institution, gaining the highest overall score for the fourth consecutive year.
New Zealand universities see record income from overseas students

1 week ago | timeshighereducation.com | John Ross

New Zealand’s universities achieved record revenue from international tuition fees last year, even though overseas enrolments had not fully recovered from the coronavirus pandemic, Ministry of Education statistics reveal. The eight institutions’ collective NZ$581 million (£258 million) in earnings from foreign students – about NZ$1 million more than they had attracted in the pre-pandemic bumper year of 2019 – was a result of fee increases as well as recovering numbers.
Former union candidate stood down over ‘hate speech’ posts

1 week ago | timeshighereducation.com | John Ross

A former presidential candidate for Australia’s academic union has been stood down by his university over tweets calling for “Zionists” to be “executed like we executed Nazis”. Fahad Ali, a molecular geneticist and sessional academic at the University of Sydney, shared the post on social media platform X on 12 June. "I want Zionists executed like we executed Nazis,' Ali reportedly wrote.
Vocational education ‘winning hearts and minds’ over universities

1 week ago | timeshighereducation.com | John Ross

Vocational education and training (VET), the perennial bridesmaid of Australian tertiary education, is stealing a march over a university sector that has long held most of the cards. Funding arrangements Down Under routinely favour universities, which – unlike most VET programmes – have access to federal teaching subsidies and income-contingent loans to cover tuition fees.
Most university staff ‘under surveillance’ on campus - union

1 week ago | timeshighereducation.com | John Ross

Australia’s academic union has criticised universities’ over-surveillance of their staff, even as Universities Australia (UA) bristles at regulatory advice to consider more surveillance of their employees, students and visitors. A National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) survey of its Victorian members has unearthed claims that work-from-home trends have fuelled so much covert observation of academics that universities have turned the resultant data into an income stream.
Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

2 weeks ago | reason.com | John Ross |John Ross

Politics Discretionary lawn care, Agent Orange, and banished from South Georgia. | Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice.
Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

2 weeks ago | ij.org | John Ross

Politics Discretionary lawn care, Agent Orange, and banished from South Georgia. | Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice.